तीस्ता सीतलवाड़ की जमानत याचिका खारिज: गुजरात हाईकोर्ट ने तुरंत सरेंडर करने को कहा; गुजरात दंगों में झूठे सबूत गढ़ने का है आरोप

Teesta Setalvad is accused of fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people in cases related to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

The Gujarat High Court on Saturday rejected the bail plea of ​​social activist Teesta Setalvad. The court has asked him to surrender immediately. Teesta Setalvad is accused of fabricating evidence to implicate innocent people in cases related to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

Setalvad was arrested on June 25 last year. After this, he had filed a bail petition in the Gujarat High Court. When the hearing on the petition was delayed, she reached the Supreme Court, where she got interim bail in September 2022.

Last year, on July 30, the trial court had rejected Teesta Setalvad’s bail plea.

Gujarat police arrested after SC’s comment
The Supreme Court on June 24, 2022 dismissed the petition against the SIT report giving a clean chit to the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 Gujarat riots case. This petition was filed by Zakia Jafri. Zakia Jafri’s husband Ehsan Jafri was killed in these riots.

Teesta Setalvad (left) was Zakia Jafri’s co-petitioner in the Gujarat riots case.

The Supreme Court said that there is no merit in Zakia’s petition. The court had also said that Teesta, the co-petitioner in the case, played with the feelings of Zakia Jafri. The court had asked for an inquiry into Teesta’s role.

After which Ahmedabad Crime Branch arrested Teesta from Mumbai on 25 June. He was kept in police remand for seven days and was sent to judicial custody on July 2.

Allegations of conspiracy by making fake documents
In the Gujarat riots case, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch had registered a case of conspiracy against Teesta Setalvad, former IPS Sanjeev Bhatt and DGP RB Sreekumar for forging documents. Sanjeev Bhatt was already in jail, while Teesta and Sreekumar were arrested together last year.

Communal violence took place in Gujarat in 2002
On 27 February 2002, the S-6 compartment of the Sabarmati Express train was set on fire at Godhra station in Gujarat. 59 people were killed in the fire. All these were kar sevaks, who were returning from Ayodhya. After the Godhra incident, riots broke out all over Gujarat. 1,044 people were killed in these riots. At that time Narendra Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat.

The day after the Godhra carnage, i.e. on February 28, 69 people were killed by an unruly mob in Gulberg Housing Society, Ahmedabad. Among the dead was former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, who lived in the same society. Due to these riots, the situation in the state had deteriorated so much that the army had to be brought down on the third day.

The commission of inquiry gave a clean chit to Narendra Modi.
On 6 March 2002, the Gujarat government constituted the Nanavati-Shah Commission to investigate the Godhra incident. Retired High Court judge KG Shah and retired Supreme Court judge GT Nanavati became its members. The commission submitted the first part of its report in September 2008. In this, the Godhra incident was described as a well-planned conspiracy. Also clean chit was given to Narendra Modi, his ministers and senior officers.

Justice KG Shah passed away in 2009. Due to which retired judge of Gujarat High Court Justice Akshay Mehta became its member and its name became Nanavati-Mehta Commission. It presented the second part of its report in December 2019. In this also the same thing was repeated, which was said in the first part of the report.